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Stylized Character Workflow

Stylized Character Workflow

A detailed guide on how to create a stylized character for film production.

texturing shading modeling sculpting

16

Chapters

99

Videos

18h 38m

Videos Duration

$ 17 / month

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In this course, 3D Artist Julien Kaspar from the Blender Animation Studio will give a detailed guide on how to create a stylized character for film production in Blender 2.8. This series of videos will has a strong focus on design, sculpting & retopology. There are additional videos on UV unwrapping, shading, lighting and presentation in the bonus content & live streams.

For a short overview of the chapter you can watch the YouTube version of this course and its followup video.

You can also download the .blend files on the creation process of the character "Rain" and "Snow". More material such as WIP renders, early tests and turntable videos from different stages in the production with detailed descriptions are also available. The final rigged characters and all production files is available in the Character Library.

Content Overview

  1. 01

    Introduction

    Free
  2. 02

    Introduction Update

    Free
  1. 01

    Defining Goals

    Free
  2. 02

    Research
  3. 03

    Blender Setup
  4. 04

    Sculpting a Primitive Head Shape
  5. 05

    Sculpting a complete Planar Head
  6. 06

    Smoothing the Planar Head
  7. 07

    Stylising the Head Sculpt
  8. 08

    Timelapse: Sculpting Rain's Head

    Free
  9. 09

    Timelapse: Vertex Painting
  10. 10

    Timelapse: Sculpting Hair
  11. 11

    Timelapse: Head Design Variations
  12. 12

    Timelapse: Finishing Rain's Head Design
  1. 01

    Creating a Primitive Body

    Free
  2. 02

    Sculpting the Planar Torso
  3. 03

    Sculpting the Planar Arms & Legs
  4. 04

    Sculpting the Planar Hands & Feet
  5. 05

    Smoothing & Stylising the Body
  6. 06

    Creating Clothing Basemeshes
  7. 07

    Update: Optimal Clothing Basemesh
  8. 08

    Modelling additional Basemeshes
  9. 09

    Stretching vs Compression
  10. 10

    Sculpting Wrinkles & Folds
  11. 11

    Polishing the Surfaces
  12. 12

    Finishing the additional Elements
  13. 13

    Timelapse: Sculpting Rains Body
  14. 14

    Timelapse: Rains Autumn Outfit
  15. 15

    Timelapse: Adjusting Proportions and the Outfit
  16. 16

    Timelapse: Rains Summer Outfit

    Free
  17. 17

    Timelapse: Sculpting Rains final Outfit
  1. 01

    Fast & rough Retopology for the Head
  2. 02

    Modelling the inner Head & transferring Details
  3. 03

    Adding the teeth, gums & tongue
  4. 04

    Basic Expression Shapekeys

    Free
  5. 05

    Sculpting an Expression
  6. 06

    Breakdown: Expression Guide Part 1

    Free
  7. 07

    Breakdown: Expression Guide Part 2
  8. 08

    Breakdown: Design Adjustments
  9. 09

    Breakdown: Adding extra Appeal
  1. 01

    Retopology Introduction
  2. 02

    Creating & Guiding Topology
  3. 03

    Planning the Facial Retopology

    Free
  4. 04

    Retopology Setup
  5. 05

    Facial Retopology - Edge Flow & Articulation
  6. 06

    Update: Strategic 2-Poles
  7. 07

    Facial Retopology - Patches & Poles
  8. 08

    Facial Retopology - Creases & Tweaking
  9. 09

    Timelapse: Head Retopology
  10. 10

    Timelapse: Body Retopology

    Free
  11. 11

    Timelapse: Inner Body & Transfering Volume
  12. 12

    Timelapse: Head Objects & Tweaking
  13. 13

    Timelapse: Hair Retopology
  14. 14

    Timelapse: Shirt & Pants Retopology Pt.1
  15. 15

    Timelapse: Shirt & Pants Retopology Pt.2
  16. 16

    Timelapse: Shoe modeling & additional Tweaking
  17. 17

    Timelapse: Scarf Retopology & Finishing Touches
  1. 01

    Timelapse: Sculpting Snow's Head

    Free
  2. 02

    Timelapse: Sculpting Snow's Body
  3. 03

    Timelapse: Polishing Snow
  4. 04

    Timelapse: Sculpting Snow's Outfit
  5. 05

    Timelapse: Remeshing & Adjusting Snow
  6. 06

    Timelapse: Snow's Expression Tests
  7. 07

    Timelapse: Posing Snow
  8. Live: Face Retopology Free
  9. Live: Head Retopology Free
  10. Live: Hair Retopology Free
  11. Live: Upper Body Retopology Free
  12. Live: Body Retopology Free
  13. Live: Retopo tweaks & outfit Free
  14. Live: Outfit Retopology Free
  15. Live: Retopology Finale Free
  16. Live: Body UV Mapping Free
  17. Live: Outfit UV Mapping Free
  18. Live: UV Mapping Finale Free
  19. Live: Base Colors & Preparations Free
  20. Live: Tiles & Procedural Detail Free
  21. Live: Height Map Painting Free
  22. Live: Detail Extraction & Stitches Free
  23. Live: Textures & Procedural Eyes Free
  24. Live: Procedural Skin & Hair Anisotropy Free
  25. Live: Turntable & Hair Textures Free
  26. Live: Baking & Final Renders Free
  1. 01

    Youtube Version: Stylized Character Workflow in Blender 2.81

    Free
  2. 02

    Snow Character Creation Recap

    Free
  3. 03

    Sculpting Fundamentals

    Free
  4. 05

    Preventing/Fixing Boolean Errors
  1. Topology Guides - Killing/Directing Loops
  2. Topology Guides - Poles & Edge Flow Free
  3. Topology Guides - Stretching & Pinching
  4. Topology Guides - Hiding Stretching
  5. Topology Guides - Strategic 2-Poles
  6. Topology Guides - Hard-Modeling Creases
  7. Facial Topology - Edge Flow
  8. Facial Topology - Landmarks
  9. Facial Topology - Articulation Free
  10. Facial Topology - Patches & Poles
  11. Facial Topology - Creases
  12. Facial Topology - Deformations
  13. Retopology Setup Free
  14. Body Topology - Seperate Limbs
  15. Body Topology - Joint Loops
  16. Body Topology - Finishing Touches
  1. File 1: Head Sculpting Lessons
  2. File 2: Body Sculpting Lessons
  3. File 3: Topology Examples
  4. File 4: Facial Topology & Planning
  1. Rain - Final Render Free
  2. Rain - Turnaround Free
  3. Rain - Turnaround (Clay) Free
  4. Rain - Turnaround (Wire) Free
  5. 05

    Rain - Turntables

    Free
  6. Snow - Final Render Free
  7. Snow - Turnaround Free
  8. Snow - Turnaround (Clay) Free
  9. Snow - Turnaround (Wire) Free
  10. 10

    Snow - Turntables

    Free
  11. Rain & Snow - Final Render Free
  1. 1 - Head Exploration Free
  2. 1 - Head Polish Free
  3. 2 - Body Iterations Free
  4. 2 - Outfit Variations Free
  5. 05

    3 - Expression Tests

    Free
  6. 4 - Retopology Free
  7. 4 - UV unwrapping Free
  8. 08

    5 - Turntable Renders

    Free
  9. 6 - Pose Exploration Free
  10. 10

    6 - Pose Polishing

    Free
  1. Rain - File 1: Head Sculpting
  2. Rain - File 2: Body & Outfit Sculpting
  3. Rain - File 3: Expression Tests
  4. Rain - File 4: Retopology & UV mapping
  5. Rain - File 5: Shading & Texturing
  6. Rain - File 6: Posing
  7. Rain - File 7: Lighting & Composition
  1. Snow - File 1: Concept
  2. Snow - File 2: Sculpting
  3. Snow - File 3: Testing
  4. Snow - File 4: Retopology
  5. Snow - File 5: UVs & Shading
  6. Snow - File 6: Rendering & Compositing
  1. 1 - Concept Drawings Free
  2. 2 - Head Sculpting Free
  3. 3 - Full Body Sculpting Free
  4. 4 - Outfit Sculpting Free
  5. 05

    5 - Expression Tests

    Free
  6. 6 - Pose test Free
  7. 7 - Retopo (Face) Free
  8. 08

    8 - Retopo (Head)

    Free
  9. 09

    9 - Hair Retopology

    Free
  10. 10

    10 - Body Retopology

    Free
  11. 11

    11 - Outfit Retopology

    Free
  12. 12

    12 - Turntable Tests

    Free
  1. Base Meshes Free
  2. Matcap: Default with Specular Free
  3. Matcap: Gradient Free
  4. Matcap: Ghost Free
  1. Screencast Keys Free
  2. Magic UV Free
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